Google’s Android team looked the other way during the development of the Moto X

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The Moto X is the first phone that was developed after the Google acquisition of Motorola, but how much input did Google really have? It was said at the beginning that Motorola would operate independently. However, Google sent over 70 employees to Motorola, include Dennis Woodside, who is now the CEO of Moto. So in some ways, Google did have a heavy influence, but according to the Wall Street Journal, the Google Android team wasn’t all that helpful. It is probably the main reason why the Moto X isn’t shipping with Android 4.3, the latest version of Android. In fact, at one point,
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When Google gained control of Motorola in 2012, the expectation was that Google was ready to release a smartphone of its own. That never happened. The blame can perhaps be put on Google’s engineering team or even the CEO’s lack of wanting to work with Motorola. Instead, Motorola pushed on its own and produced its flagship that was announced and released in August 2013: the Moto X.